Rocknerd

Remember when records had covers?

11 November, 201110 May, 2017 Record 0

For your delectation: The Kitten Covers.

The world’s ugliest 88 notes.

9 November, 201110 May, 2017 Esoterica 0

An earnest attempt to construct the world’s mathematically ugliest music. (Several minutes intro, then the tune.) Personally I think this fails to correctly ascertain

And good riddance.

2 November, 201110 May, 2017 Audio 0

Looks like no more major CDs by the end of 2012 — they’ll become boutique items for fans, like vinyl. About time too.

Play trumpet so awesomely that your brain explodes! Literally.

5 September, 201110 May, 2017 Classical, Musician 0

You thought trying to make a living as a rock musician sucked? You should be giving prayers of thanks that you’re not a classical

The Clouds, The Wonder Stuff, Jesus Jones: August 19, Melbourne

26 August, 201110 May, 2017 Live 0

The Clouds, The Wonder Stuff and Jesus Jones make a very good combination of acts, although holding the event at The Palace was a

Peter Hook interviews John Cooper Clarke.

14 August, 201120 May, 2017 Post-Punk, Radio 0

FUC51 no doubt shat, but crusty old post-punks like me will delight at Peter Hook interviewing John Cooper Clarke on BBC Radio 4 Chain

Pump up the zining. Old-skool.

9 August, 201110 May, 2017 Writing 3

As I have detailed in the past, I want a paper fanzine again, filled from cover to shining cover with good writing about music

Digitising and scanning, preserving culture.

4 August, 201110 May, 2017 Audio 0

The Save Australian Music project continues apace, though not a very fast pace. I have discovered (as I had presumed) that my old indie

And the pay is terrible.

29 July, 201110 May, 2017 Writing 0

What It’s Like To Interview A Celebrity, from Lovelyish.

Rock critic survives to 92.

6 July, 201110 May, 2017 Writing 0

Cleveland rock critic Jane Young died on Monday after 38 years at the job, from 1964 until 2002. Yeah, guess I have to keep

FUC51.

6 July, 201110 May, 2017 Post-Punk 0

Aggressive ahistoricality is a problem, but so too is the dead hand of nostalgia, follow the subjects of the nostalgia back when it wasn’t

Fighting aggressive ahistoricality.

5 July, 201110 May, 2017 Writing 0

It’s always heartwarming when someone gets really pissed off and channels it into documenting something that sorely needs it. Kirrily Robert is about to

The past: delete, not notable.

15 June, 201110 May, 2017 Writing 5

Last week I took The Wolfgang Press in Wikipedia from two paragraphs to a proper article. Yesterday it was on the front page Did

Gary Numan and Severed Heads, Forum, Melbourne, May 14, 2011

15 May, 201110 May, 2017 Industrial, Live 0

The Forum is one of Melbourne’s many stylish venues. Built in the 1920s it has a baroque level of art nouveau features with a

Pink Floyd sell actual bottom of barrel with scrapings.

14 May, 201110 May, 2017 Record, Writing 0

TIME, Dark side of the moan, Wednesday (N! News) — Both remaining members of Pink Floyd have announced the launch of the “Why Pink

UbuWeb is your finest cultural value.

24 April, 201110 May, 2017 Esoterica 1

UbuWeb is an archive of avant-garde text, music and film operating on the basis of putting up unavailable stuff and taking it down as

Melbourne’s Arthouse to go out with a bang!

12 April, 201110 May, 2017 Live 0

Melbourne’s famous alternative music venue ‘The Arthouse’ is closing its doors forever on May 1st due to issues caused by the same liquor licensing

40 Sad Portraits Of Closed Record Stores.

12 April, 201110 May, 2017 Record 2

Saturday the 16th of April is International Record Store Day, but this photo essay documents the ones that are no longer with us.

Make my day.

30 March, 201110 May, 2017 mp3 0

Music services that aren’t iTunes need to be better to compete. Google is politely negotiating streaming. Amazon, on the other hand, has decided to

Leftfield, Melbourne, March 18, 2011

19 March, 201110 May, 2017 Dance, Live 5

The early 1990s were a depressing time, and even more so in Victoria, Australia. The Gorbachev revolution, which successfully led to the unravelling of

Hawkwind, Billboard, Melbourne March 12, 2011

13 March, 201110 May, 2017 Live, Prog 0

As they announced, these are the warriors on the edge of space and time. Now in their forty-second year of performance and correlating with

One soul less on your fiery list.

11 March, 201110 May, 2017 Record 0

Paul Harding emails to tell of his blog Perthmusic (and earlier version), a pile of unavailable CDs, records and tapes from no-longer-gigging bands of

A requiem for the Luminaire.

9 March, 201110 May, 2017 Live 0

I just returned from the last of many gigs I saw at the Luminaire, and indeed, the last ever gig there. The bands playing

Quite possibly the most horrible record of 2011.

8 March, 20119 January, 2017 Pop 0

George Michael doing a laid back MOR version of “True Faith” by New Order. Through a vocoder. While wrapped around a lamp post.

Why movies right now suck more than music.

8 March, 201112 April, 2017 Film 3

The Internet has set off a desperately-needed nuclear viral cancer bomb under the music industry. The majors are going down the tubes, the distribution

The hope of Audacity.

7 March, 20119 January, 2017 Musician 0

People seem insufficiently aware of Audacity, the open-source sound recording and editing program. This is the four-track everyone desperately wanted twenty years ago. If

When you stream, you’re streaming with piracy!

26 February, 20119 January, 2017 mp3 2

My house has teenagers in it. They are actively interested in music, read Kerrang! (which is now a land of sensitive boys with floppy

Perfect sound until next time.

23 February, 20119 January, 2017 Audio 0

Apple is in talks with the majors to finally outdo CD, with 24-bit audio downloads. Current iPods can’t play it, and lossless stereo 24/96

Even in the futurepop, nothing works.

20 February, 20113 May, 2017 Industrial, Opinion, Record, Writing 0

In the early 1990s, I tried very hard to become a serious Anthony Burgess fan. A Clockwork Orange is absolutely first-class and probably my favourite novel of all time.

However, all his other novels suck. All of them.

You can’t handle the truth.

19 February, 201119 September, 2016 Musician 3

For my birthday, my darling girlfriend just gave me some shitty, shitty eight quid laptop speakers from Curry’s, to serve as cruel and vicious